From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 12 06:08:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23097 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 06:08:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23027 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 06:08:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id IAA26491; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:07:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:07:25 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting help In-Reply-To: <19990112063523.E12236@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: # I'm working on putting a port together, and I've hit a few snags. # The port skeleton that I have is at: # # I stuck it in the 'graphics' category, though I'm not completely sure # that's the best. # Problems/quandries: # 1) In the porting section of the handbook, it mentions doing a 'make # checksum' to generate the files/md5 file, which I couldn't for the life # of me get to work right. I ended up manually md5'ing the file, and # duplicating the format of the other md5 files I see. It seems to work, # but I'm wondering if the 'make checksum' is supposed to work as # advertised or if it's right as it is. I think you want 'make makesum'. # 2) Manpages. I'm a little unclear on what exactly should be happening # here. The Makefile of the package itself (not the port skeleton) # compresses and installs the manpages as part of it's installation # routine. Does this mean I should: # a) make a patch to take that out, and use the MANx variable? # b) include the manpage in the PLIST? # c) something else? Use MANx and MANCOMPRESSED=yes. # 3) portlint is spewing: # {~/tmp/tmpport/graphics/bgrot} mortis:{1604} %portlint . | grep ^WARN # WARN: extra item placed in the *_DEPENDS section, for example, "USE_PERL5". # Does this mean I should do this some other way? # USE_PERL5= yes # RUN_DEPENDS= xv:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/xv Swap the order of the two lines and put a blank line between them. # # That's all I've found just in theoretical; I haven't tried any of the # actual install/etc as a port, just trying to get it clean-looking for the # moment. You might also like to add 'FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-b' since I had trouble getting both the portball and the distfile. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message